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Thunderstorm/Convective Watch - Spring/Summer 2012

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    #62
    redsteveireland
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    What are those weird horizontal lights in the sky in the first pic?

    Was there alien activity around the time of the storm? :eek::eek::eek:

    Yes, that's what it is. Did you not hear?


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    #63
    Wild Bill
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    Nabber wrote: »
    Think they are the reflection in the window of the interior lights.

    Who'd have thunk it? :rolleyes:


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    #64
    Iancar29
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    THe Next potential for any sort of thundery setup looks to be thursday. Shall post charts later if they are still appearing ok on later runs. :-)


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    #65
    Wild Bill
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    Any chance of some action on the East coast?

    Surely it can miss me again :rolleyes:


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    #66
    Iancar29
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Any chance of some action on the East coast?

    Surely it can miss me again :rolleyes:

    Ah cant be certain were anything is gonna be this far out... itll be changing about a few times i'd imagine... hopefully get some decent upgrades too.. :rolleyes:


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    #67
    Deep Easterly
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    Thursday's chart would be classic set up for powerful evening home-growns to develop if it were sometime between May & September:

    197003.png

    but should bring a nice summery feel to the weather regardless with that eternally damp, rank Atlantic influence cut off for a while. :)


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    #68
    traecy1
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    Indeed Deep Easterly . We rarely seem to get these setups in late spring/summer anymore. May 2008 is the only half decent one I can remember in recent times.


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    #69
    Wild Bill
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    traecy1 wrote: »
    Indeed Deep Easterly . We rarely seem to get these setups in late spring/summer anymore. May 2008 is the only half decent one I can remember in recent times.

    What gave us the brilliant April last year?


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    #70
    Deep Easterly
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    What gave us the brilliant April last year?

    I can't remember off-hand what last April was like but May 08 was a true gem of a month. Very sunny and warm and quite thundery esp late in the month. The storm on the 31st was oddly unnerving with thunderclaps so frequent that they blended into just one huge omnipotent roar! :) I agree with Tracy that it was last time we had a half decent summery spell, on this side of the rock at least :o


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    #71
    traecy1
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    What gave us the brilliant April last year?

    Yes, last April was good but May 2008 had some excellent thundery downpours which were lacking last year. In fact the Atlantic barely troubled us during that entire month, if I remember correctly.


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    #72
    Wild Bill
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    Warmest April on record at most stations; sunny and drier than normal almost everywhere

    - according to my memory and Met Eireann. ;)


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    #73
    Deep Easterly
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    - according to my memory and Met Eireann. ;)

    Also from met eireann:
    The Weather of May 2008
    Warmest May on record in most places; dry and sunny almost everyhwere
    Thunder was frequent, particularly over the western half of the country; it was most widespread on the 1st, 8th and in the periods 10th to 12th, 22nd to 23rd and 30th to 31st.

    One warmest May on record is worth 100 warmest Aprils on record! ;):p


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    #74
    redsteveireland
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Also from met eireann:


    One warmest May on record is worth 100 warmest Aprils on record! ;):p


    I thought this story was from 2008 but it was actually 2010 in Galway.

    Mother and son in miraculous escape after lightning strike

    Wednesday, June 02, 2010
    A WOMAN and her son had a miraculous escape when lightning struck their house, blowing a hole in the roof and smashing through the mother’s bedroom ceiling........


    Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/mother-and-son-in-miraculous-escape-after-lightning-strike-121351.html#ixzz1phEx2FdB


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    #75
    Wild Bill
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Also from met eireann:


    One warmest May on record is worth 100 warmest Aprils on record! ;):p


    I'll get back to you on that! My memory tells me April was much sunnier.
    I could be wrong, but seriously, what are the odds? :D


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    #76
    Deep Easterly
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    redsteveireland wrote: »
    I thought this story was from 2008 but it was actually 2010 in Galway.

    Mother and son in miraculous escape after lightning strike

    Wednesday, June 02, 2010
    A WOMAN and her son had a miraculous escape when lightning struck their house, blowing a hole in the roof and smashing through the mother’s bedroom ceiling........


    Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/mother-and-son-in-miraculous-escape-after-lightning-strike-121351.html#ixzz1phEx2FdB


    They had a lucky escape :). Locally speaking, the Athenry area seems to get its fair share of storms, at least it seems that way from here. :o
    Wild Bill wrote: »
    I'll get back to you on that! My memory tells me April was much sunnier.
    I could be wrong, but seriously, what are the odds?

    from met.ie (sunshine totals)
    April 2011: Highest monthly total: 208 hours at Casement Aerodrome
    May 2008: Highest monthly total: 265 hours at Malin Head (its sunniest May since 2000)

    For Malin Head to get 265 sunshine hours in a month surely must have taken something special :D


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    #77
    km79
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    redsteveireland wrote: »
    I thought this story was from 2008 but it was actually 2010 in Galway.

    Mother and son in miraculous escape after lightning strike

    Wednesday, June 02, 2010
    A WOMAN and her son had a miraculous escape when lightning struck their house, blowing a hole in the roof and smashing through the mother’s bedroom ceiling........


    Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/mother-and-son-in-miraculous-escape-after-lightning-strike-121351.html#ixzz1phEx2FdB


    They had a lucky escape :). Locally speaking, the Athenry area seems to get its fair share of storms, at least it seems that way from here. :o
    Remember that evening . Big downpour and electricity went for a while


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    #78
    redsteveireland
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    They had a lucky escape :). Locally speaking, the Athenry area seems to get its fair share of storms, at least it seems that way from here. :o



    from met.ie (sunshine totals)
    April 2011: Highest monthly total: 208 hours at Casement Aerodrome
    May 2008: Highest monthly total: 265 hours at Malin Head (its sunniest May since 2000)

    For Malin Head to get 265 sunshine hours in a month surely must have taken something special :D

    I would say the Tuam area gets more than its fair share of storms :)
    Grass is always greener etc.


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    #79
    Wild Bill
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    My bad Deep East - I thought you were talking about May last year :o

    Those lazy hazy days of last April have been unmatched since.....

    IMG_4318-1.jpg


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    #80
    Harps
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    The last big thunderstorms around here were in June 2009, I managed to unknowingly miss a massive one by a matter of miles one day. I was less than 10 miles away yet we had mostly blue skies without a drop of rain all day where I was. Couldn't believe it when I saw this on the news!

    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/horror-storms-flood-west-donegal-14359110.html

    As for May 08 vs. April 11, last April was probably the driest and sunniest month in recent memory for me, can't remember anything stand out about May in 2008 but it'll generally have more sunshine hours by default so a direct comparison seems a bit unfair, it barely rained all month around here in April but then it lead to what was described as the worst wildfires in living memory so it became quite surreal with army personnel everywhere and fire-fighting helicopters constantly passing overhead. Certainly not something I'd want to see again

    As for thunderstorms, bring them on! Nothing too exciting on the horizon at the moment but if we got the coming week's synoptic's in a few months time then there'd be plenty of fun, plenty of hope for now


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    #81
    Deep Easterly
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    Sat animation of western Europe today (may take a couple of minutes to load fully)

    an_2.gif
    From meteogalica

    Some active weather in parts of western France today with the development of a frontal trough which is now weakening and a'headin' for Ireland. The set up is not overly dissimilar to that which brought ferocious summer storms of July 1985 and June 1986 with thundery troughs spilling up from Biscay & France during both episodes. Why OH why can we not get set ups like this during the summer season anymore? :(


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    #82
    Iancar29
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Sat animation of western Europe today (may take a couple of minutes to load fully)

    an_2.gif
    From meteogalica

    Some active weather in parts of western France today with the development of a frontal trough which is now weakening and a'headin' for Ireland. The set up is not overly dissimilar to that which brought ferocious summer storms of July 1985 and June 1986 with thundery troughs spilling up from Biscay & France during both episodes. Why OH why can we not get set ups like this during the summer season anymore? :(

    I was only thinking that there earlier when i was checking sat24 for any clear sky potential... looked quite active indeed for this time of year...
    Not enough energy though for thundery activity though, cloud tops just didnt rise enough ...


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    Deep Easterly
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    I was only thinking that there earlier when i was checking sat24 for any clear sky potential... looked quite active indeed for this time of year...
    Not enough energy though for thundery activity though, cloud tops just didnt rise enough ...

    Yep, the 18z analysis did have some minor activity off the coast of Brittany earlier today but not much:

    197183.png
    from yr.no

    If this was June, July or August we would be in meltdown now and up all night watching dense sferic streams heading up towards Ireland from the south and southeast. :D, but since it is only March we might get a bit of drizzle with the odd heavy burst. Will be interesting to see if there is any atmospheric haze ahead of that approaching trough tomorrow. Often a good sign of thunder in the summer. :)


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    #84
    Iancar29
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Yep, the 18z analysis did have some minor activity off the coast of Brittany earlier today but not much:

    197183.png
    from yr.no

    If this was June, July or August we would be in meltdown now and up all night watching dense sferic streams heading up towards Ireland from the south and southeast. :D, but since it is only March we might get a bit of drizzle with the odd heavy burst. Will be interesting to see if there is any atmospheric haze ahead of that approaching trough tomorrow. Often a good sign of thunder in the summer. :)

    Stop putting dreams in our heads!!! haha.... wait a second.. im off to The Plains in just over 2 months!>..... hehehehehe! :D;):p


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    Deep Easterly
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Stop putting dreams in our heads!!! haha.... wait a second.. im off to The Plains in just over 2 months!>..... hehehehehe! :D;):p

    "YOU ARE APPROACHING A TWISTING STORM"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlO7AZFLrPg


    One thing you'll never hear on a sat nav here!


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    #86
    Redsunset
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    I found the, The synoptic setting of thunderstorms in
    western Europe file a very interesting read and thunder heads will appreciate it.

    The synoptic setting of thunderstorms in
    western Europe

    http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~delde102/Syn.Set.Thunderstorms.pdf



    http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/weather-events/July1985_Thunderstorm.PDF


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    DOCARCH
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    I see Estofex is giving us a chance of thunderstorms for today.

    Strong QG forcing can be expected with the cut-off low moving northwards today. Moist maritime air that will spread into Ireland may destabilize in response to the lift, and showers and thunderstorms may develop during the period. Weak vertical wind shear near the trough's center will limit the severe potential.


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    #88
    Iancar29
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    "YOU ARE APPROACHING A TWISTING STORM"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlO7AZFLrPg


    One thing you'll never hear on a sat nav here!

    AWh i miss that warning! ha , we got it many of times over in the states! ha :D
    redsunset wrote: »
    I found the, The synoptic setting of thunderstorms in
    western Europe file a very interesting read and thunder heads will appreciate it.

    The synoptic setting of thunderstorms in
    western Europe

    http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~delde102/Syn.Set.Thunderstorms.pdf

    http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/weather-events/July1985_Thunderstorm.PDF

    COol , ill shall have a nice read of that later .
    DOCARCH wrote: »
    I see Estofex is giving us a chance of thunderstorms for today.

    Strong QG forcing can be expected with the cut-off low moving northwards today. Moist maritime air that will spread into Ireland may destabilize in response to the lift, and showers and thunderstorms may develop during the period. Weak vertical wind shear near the trough's center will limit the severe potential.

    Yeah i think this is what the models where looking at from the other day, without even looking at any charts, just looking outside doesnt show a good sign, its overcast, so no land based heating like we had on Paddy's day.

    This mornings Sounding from valentia...

    valtef.gif


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    #89
    blackius
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    Dry in Arklow at the moment despite the radar returns nearby.
    The sky has a real Biscay look about it though.


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    #90
    Iancar29
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    blackius wrote: »
    Dry in Arklow at the moment despite the radar returns nearby.
    The sky has a real Biscay look about it though.

    Yeah very hazy , hay fever already coming back too! :mad:


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    #91
    Wild Bill
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    Stlll clear here; bit hazy. Not much sign of anything bar maybe a ground frost by morning.


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